Victorian era begins
1837 · Event
Conventional start of Victorian era.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1837
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)